Tuesday 20 January 2009

When is a plant not a weed........






..... when it is  Allium triquetrum, or three-cornered garlic.
" Introduced to gardens from the Mediterranean, an occasional escape on grassy cliffs and in the village of Mundesley." *
 This allium is very rare in Norfolk and we appear to have most of it on the bank by our stream.
*  "A Flora of Norfolk" by Beckett & Bull
As for the fungus, I haven`t a clue .......... suggestions please.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Show - off! I used to have a Great Aunt, totally uneducated and illiterate - who knew three names for any plant -colloquial, country version and Latin. How about that?

XXXX Sue

walrus21 said...

When we find out Mundesley dialect name we`ll let you know!
xxxwalrus

Mary Z said...

Thanks for posting on my blog, Walrus! I love having found this lovely group of artists.

MaryZ

Anonymous said...

Smoke it and SEE.
OAA XXX

walrus21 said...

OOA, Do we have to dry it first? I`m not too confident about harvesting wild plants unless they are blackberries ....